The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a bill that returns wolf management to states and is a step toward fixing flaws in the Endangered Species Act – something Safari Club International, on behalf of all hunters, has championed for years.

H.R. 6784, the Manage Our Wolves Act, was introduced in September by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI). The bill was approved 196-180 and secured bipartisan support from nine Democrats and 187 Republicans.

Passage of the Manage Our Wolves Act will return management of the Western Great Lakes gray wolf population to the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The bill will also ensure that Wyoming’s gray wolf management remains under state authority and will direct the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to delist the remaining gray wolves of the lower 48 states, with the exception of Mexican wolves.

SCI President Paul Babaz was quick to praise the win on the House floor.

“First, thanks to Rep. Sean Duffy and so many other supportive Members of Congress for highlighting the critical need to recognize that recovery must lead to de-listing,” SCI President Babaz said. “Second, this is a tremendous victory for hunters, wildlife conservation in general, and State wildlife managers. All of them have played significant roles recovering gray wolf populations.”

While wolf recovery successes have been continually thwarted or ignored by courts acting on the many ambiguities or flaws in the wording of the ESA, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service states on its website: “the gray wolf has rebounded from the brink of extinction to exceed population targets by as much as 300 percent. Today, there are estimated to be 5,691 gray wolves in the contiguous United States. Wolf numbers continue to be robust, stable and self-sustaining.”

The recovery of the gray wolf is a success story and H.R. 6784 will help correctly transfer their management to the professionals at the state wildlife management agencies—the primary managers of our nation’s fish and wildlife resources.

“I’m very proud SCI has been a leader in ESA litigation efforts over so many years to help support wolf delisting,” SCI President Babaz added. “Today’s win in Congress is an opportunity for federal legislators to clear away ESA’s roadblocks and enact laws to recognize easily documentable recovery efforts and restore State wildlife management authority.”

Going Down the Rabbit Hole

By James Beers:

My Inbox this morning had 5 separate copies of the news article,House of Representatives to vote on gray wolf delisting Friday from the Spokane newspaper. Two of the senders asked what I thought, while the other three sent it for my information. My following comments and the news article that follows them are provided for your consideration.)

Re: Wolf De Listing

This is only a temporary fix for everyone. The basic authority for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, under the ESA, to relist and reintroduce wolves is not limited by this.

So “they” (a temporarily benevolent Congress) make a law that wolves either in the Lower 48 or in certain States are not Endangered or Threatened and even that full management and authority over wolves (it cannot do this as long as the ESA authorizes federal bureaucrats and “scientists” to inform us that wolves are once again on the cusp of extinction in … and that the ESA “directs” and authorizes them to “save” the wolves. Thank you, President Hillary or Alexandria Cortez or Jeff Flake or whoever wins the next electoral recounts. Thank you as well to the next simultaneous House and Senate bursting with Dems, Socialists (but I repeat myself) and “get along” RINOS. Do I believe that the Dems in the incoming or even current House will pass this? Who, in Washington, will push this in the most toxic national political climate since 1860? What Dems or Republicans will fight for something Trump (think WALL, Ryan and OBAMACARE here) might possibly get any credit for? The only thing really going for it is a blip in rural support for Washington mischief in the future (before reality is reintroduced about federal authority in such matters).

Imagine, that Wyoming (or NC or NM or ID, etc.) says “whoopie” now we can eliminate wolves in 21 0f our 23 counties (or even that they might think they could exterminate all their wolves). Under a spineless governing class and with every rural resident back asleep because “wolves are delisted”, do you really think USFWS and that pack of hyenas they employ and even all those closet tinker belles now working in state “wildlife” agencies wouldn’t scare all the urban women and kids about the imminent demise of wolves everywhere and how they need to intervene quickly to “save” them under the provisions of the ESA?

Raise your hands if you really believe that Washington politicians would come out from under their desks to straighten things out. What would stop it? Some judge whose wife and daughter “love animals”? Some “scientist saying it’s all humbug” (how many of them have you seen lately)? The same old line of XY&%# would be resurrected and plugged into the ESA’s un-Constitutional, unjust and destructive blather (but very real federal authority/jurisdiction/power grab that it wrought) about how federal bureaucrats and “scientists” trump (a great word) any delay or argument about private property rights, human health & safety, economics, liberty, domestic Tranquility, etc. etc.

States will try to respect federal and environmental demands using the rationale that “we can all get along, but that has never worked because the wolves are doing what they are supposed to do from wrecking ranching, shrinking hunting and destroying animal ownership like dogs. Nearly all state agencies realize their bread is buttered by federal bureaucrats and national NGO’s, so challenging the status quo results in only a temporary respite much like “De-Regulation” enthusiasm. They all know that any attempt to manage wolves as the people of the state want or most particularly the desires of those LIVING WITH WOLVES want will eventually meet with disaster for those attempting such impertinence.

The same goes for the Animal Welfare Act as a secondary tool of rural tyranny. For instance, say North Carolina finds (as most states will) that you can neither count or “control” wolves satisfactorily and that:

Trapping.

Denning (the killing of wolf pups).

Year-around taking by a few shooters and young guys that enjoy shooting, hunting, etc. (exactly the young men and boys most affected by teachers, public pressure, recent laws, etc. feminizing American males).

Running dogs bred to run and kill wolves (in the Lower 48 States with a hodgepodge of private property?) as was the case centuries ago when the British, Scots and Irish invented and ran Wolfhounds to extirpate wolves when other methods were found to be inadequate.

Aerial control in certain areas.

Are the only methods that would really work but that no one dares even suggest for fear of reprisal.

Then when it sinks in that it is necessary to routinely use effective methods to maintain “tolerable” wolf levels and that whether on a local, state or Regional basis it is prohibitively expensive if attempted by government employees, and somewhat less expensive if done even by license-purchasing hunters given all the lawsuits, controversies and demands meant only to make any control impossible: enter the Animal Welfare Act as backup.

“Welfare” (as in “Animal”) folks, in collusion with the “environmental” folks will go to court; make arrests; charge; fine; and incarcerate those using “IN-humane” methods as decided by a judge or some Washington bureaucrats paid to enforce the AWA. Grants and research will flourish and provide fodder for prohibitions. “The ammunition is lead and eagles are dying.” “Wolves are being wounded by inadequately trained gun owners”. “Traps and dogs are ruled IN-humane and are prohibited”. “Shooters are killing too many immature wolves because …”. “Trapping during calving season is causing suffering to wolf pups still in the den”. “There is insufficient ‘data’ to allow indiscriminate shooting of wolves’ impact on the family structure of packs in crowded habitats or in packs that roam vast areas”. “Aerial control is cruel and unusual”. Etcetera, Etcetera.

All the while the wolves will increase, habituate, and continue to learn how to exist in the settled and artificial landscapes of the Lower 48 States. Expansion into ever-broader landscapes will occur as harassment increases, livestock is somewhat better protected, and wolf densities make roaming more and expanding their range to where wildlife, livestock and dogs are more available a likely outcome.

It is a much bigger mess than anyone admits or realizes. These ramifications and problems are only increasing with time as wolf advocates imagine a success thus far, and wolf realists and Constitutionalists look to “De-Listing” as a solution for something that is only being covered up and kept out of site until favorable conditions return.

Pardon me if my unmentionables aren’t wadded up and my eyes all teary.

Jim Beers

16 November 2018

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Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.

Gary Marbut, head of Montana Shooting Sports Association, sent out the following email listing all the bills proposed before the House and Senate to destroy the Second Amendment. A reaction from the Las Vegas “shooting.”

U.S. House of Representatives

HR 3947 – Bans parts and accessories that increase the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm

1939– Repeals the Lawful Protection in Commerce law that would allow lawsuits against FFL’s and manufacturers

1945– Would ‘ban’ possession and transfer of large capacity magazines (More than 10 rounds)

Of course few know anything about real history and how Nazi Germany so easily disarmed, first the Jews and locked them up in concentration camps and then systematically murder thousands of them, followed by a total disarmament of the citizenry.

Mark Alexander of the Patriot Post offers a “Bullet Point Reality Check” on living with guns, interesting data about guns and violence and a comparative look at gun related deaths and other killers, of which Congress and other fascists remain silent about. The bullet points are interesting but in today’s America, data and facts are no longer considered in our post normal, insane world.

Lloyd Billingsley, from Front Page Magazine, offers a bit more in depth look at the eerily similar steps being taken by members of Congress that closely follow what the German Weimar Republic did which set the stage and opened the door wide for Adolph Hitler’s Nazism and the disarming of the citizenry.

Halbrook points out right away that, “German firearm laws and hysteria created against Jewish firearm ownersplayed a major role in laying the groundwork for the eradication of German Jewry inthe Holocaust.”

If I may, let me focus a moment on hysteria. Fear and hysteria have always been important and integral necessities in controlling the masses. A fearful servitude will do anything they are told. Those whose bent is the control of people, do everything they can to keep the masses scared.

When events like in Las Vegas take place, fear within the globs of non-thinking automatons is reinforced and topped off with much hysteria – the more the better. This accomplishes or allows for the accomplishment of many things.

In a November, 2013 article published in the Washington Times, Halbrook is quoted as saying, “Today, gun control, registration and prohibition are depicted as benign and progressive.” When the subjects are constantly being bombarded with fear mongering tactics and events that create hysteria, which today most any political action is causing hysteria, is it any wonder that any form of gun control is viewed by the masses as “benign and progressive?” This is evident when, from both sides of the false paradigm of “Left” and “Right,” all that is ever spoken is the need for “reasonable” gun control laws, while never attempting to define reasonable. I’m sure the masses must have considered the Weimar Republic’s gun control laws reasonable at that time.

If it were possible to strip away all the fear and hysteria that drives and controls our every day, perhaps some could begin to see how thoroughly our man-given rights and those once considered inalienable, have been destroyed. And for what?

So much so our government, who, in my opinion, are about as useless and undesirably corrupt as Al Capone in his day, rushes in, as shown above in Gary Marbut’s email, with Nazi-esque bills to take full advantage of the programmed hysteria that has irresponsibly taken over the masses, a reasonable person would have to ask if it isn’t Congress, i.e. the “Ruling Establishment” that controls Congress, who are perpetuating the events that cause the fear and hysteria.

Through all of this, bear in mind that in order for benignity to remain and progress, each successive crisis must be bigger and greater than the last. The servitude become desensitized with each event, thus forcing the perpetrators to increase the effect.

Benign and progressive! Isn’t progressivism possible because planned events that seemingly become progressively horrific tend to create a dumbing down effect and thus with each successive event the previous becomes more and more benign?

We refuse to see our Government as anything that closely resembles that of Nazi Germany. This is, of course, part of the “benign and progressive” society we have been programmed to accept. All the indicators are there. And when events like Las Vegas happen, how soon we forget what President Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff said during the heat of the financial “crisis” in 2008 – “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

The Left claims the Right takes Emanuel’s quote out of context saying that he didn’t mean to use a crisis for political gain. What other reason can there be? However, it doesn’t really matter. To an honest person, anyone who would make such a statement, in any context, and in the position of power that they hold, is only revealing reality. The intent is “to do things you think you could not do before.” And thus, “progressive” members of Congress go about to disarm their citizenry.

Which brings us right back to the question of whether or not those fomenting the fear and hysteria are those same one’s offering up the Nazi-type legislation?

There is little reason to think this isn’t exactly what is taking place. This fits the Hegelian Dialectic to a tee – thesis, reaction, antithesis. To put this dialectic in Las Vegas terms (or place here any of the “crises” of past years), the event is orchestrated. Fear and hysteria sets in. “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Embellishment to pump up the reaction, readying the masses for a pre-planned response. Those who created the crisis, rush in with a solution, i.e. thesis, reaction, antithesis – noting that the solution contradicts the created problem.

Far fetched? You’ll have to decide. Regardless of the outcome of the proposal of the anti-gun bills in Congress, one thing is for certain. Gun control and the destruction of the Second Amendment, the only roadblock to full Communism and Dictatorial rule, will become even more benign and progressive. To accomplish that, events (crises) will become more horrific and/or occur more often.

That’s essentially what Joe Bastardi says in his contribution opinion piece to the Patriot Post, suggesting that Congress should take the money budgeted for Climate Change research and give it to cover the costs of “preconditions” within the communist health care plans (fake) being proposed by Congress (fake).

Being that we live is a world that is 100% post normal and there is no longer any discussion about why in hell are we being robbed of the money we work our asses off for so that Congress can continue to pay Big Corporations and Big Pharma and suggest levying more taxes to cover fake things that the fat cats don’t want to pay for?

How about this suggestion for all you communist/socialists who LOVE your damned servitude – LET’S DEFUND CONGRESS AND SEND THEM ALL TO HELL!!

With the election cycle coming to an end, it is time for Congress to tackle the looming gray wolf problem in the Great Lakes states. To put it plainly, the federal government has failed residents of the Great Lakes region on this issue and it is time to come together to delist the wolf from the endangered species list once and for all. Senator Ron Johnson and Congress Reid Ribble introduced the State Wolf Population Management Bill (S.2281) with language removing the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. This language has also been added to the Senate version of the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016. We feel this language should be passed as soon as possible to return wolf management back to the states.

It is now time for Senator Tammy Baldwin to step forward and offer leadership on the Democratic-side of the aisle just as Senator John Tester (D-MT) did out west. We understand this is an uncomfortable issue for Senator Baldwin because of her home in Madison. However, she was elected to represent the entire state, and we encourage her to take a bold step to heed the will of the people who are most affected by the runaway wolf population–rural Wisconsinites.

Nearly 200 concerned citizens attended the Great Lakes Wolf Summit held in Cumberland in September and proved that delisting of the grey wolf is a bi-partisan issue. While we can all agree that the wolf has a place on the landscape, Wisconsin should not be a wolf sanctuary. Senator Baldwin has the opportunity to help reduce the number of tragic losses of family pets and livestock lost to an out-of-control wolf population in Wisconsin. In the past, Wisconsin has proven to be capable of managing our wolf population and now is the time to return control to the states.

Congress “got something done!” Whooptie bison dung! I recall a United States Senator from Maine once saying that she was sent to Washington by the Maine people to “make laws and pass them.” It showed her ignorance along with her perception of her power OVER THE PEOPLE. Anyone would be a hero if they pledged to go to Washington and repeal ALL THE LAWS.

Congress has a dismal approval rating and a trustworthiness that’s probably in the negative numbers by now. It’s easy to disapprove of Congress and say terrible things about them. Even the brain dead, crooked members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House shit on “Congress” as though they were something foreign. But, it appears nobody knows who Congress really is. They must be invisible.

Remember when the Kabuki Theater of the campaign to elect (wink, wink) a candidate from each of the two PRIVATE PARTIES, democrats and republicans, began? All in the Democrat party were current or former members of Congress. Nearly all of the Republicans the same thing. Those “outsiders” have or soon became connected insiders.

Everyone shits on “Congress” because “they can’t get anything done.” Well, no more! The Patriot Retort claims that Congress really dug in and accomplished something really vital to the future of this nation – voted to make the American Bison the official National Mammal. “I look forward to hearing all of the ways making the bison the national mammal of the United States has impacted your life. I’m sure it’s significant.”

Now the American people are united once again…well, not really. But that damned “Congress!” They can’t be trusted – none of them. But I think I really like someone like Hillary Clinton or Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and John Kaisich to turn this country around. I know they can do it this time. GEE WHIZ!

Even these professional liars, with straight faces, stand before the public and shit on Congress, telling of their awful failures. And the people BELIEVE! Chase me off a cliff or something. That’s where everyone else is going and I don’t want to miss out.

This morning I received an email about all the “Muslim” things that have “suddenly” happened in this country since Barack Obama became president. While the email didn’t come right out and say that this all happened since the “Muslim” Obama became president, it was intended.

Presenting the sudden influx of everything Islam into the country as “something that never happened before” Obama, can we then expect that if Donald Trump is elected (wink, wink) president all national parks will be sold for the good of the taxpayers and they will be dotted with Trump Towers and golf courses? Naw! He’s an “outsider.” He’ll not be like them losers in Congress.

Congress is what Congress is told what to be. It’s time Americans learned this. But they won’t. Instead, they would prefer to believe what members of Congress tell them that Congress can’t get anything done. “IF YOU VOTE FOR ME I WILL GO TO WASHINGTON AND……” do the exact same thing I am now.

This is an example of YOUR tax dollars at work. But not just on the surface of what you can see in this video. YOUR tax dollars were at work long before this event. You can witness that because of a robotic, non-thinking, incompetent, programmed dupe representing the Department of Homeland Security. You can also witness it by the lying bastards, members of Congress, who already know the answers to the questions they are asking this woman because they created the problem to begin with.

Yes, YOUR tax dollars at work and evidently YOU like the results because YOU are doing nothing about it.

Billings, Mont. – Although their deadline for completing and passing the nation’s fiscal year 2016 spending bill expired 79 days ago, today both houses of Congress cheered as the President signed their $1.1 trillion measure, which will now cover only nine and one-half months, the time remaining in the 2016 fiscal year.

By wide margins – 318-109 in the House and 65-33 in the Senate – the dilatory Congress passed the massive spending bill knowing full well that within the dark reaches of its more than 2000 pages was a provision that had nothing to do with government spending but everything to do withsatisfying multinational campaign contributors.

Section 759 of the spending bill strips U.S. citizens of their right to know the origins of their food, specifically the origins of the beef and pork and ground beef and ground pork that hundreds of millions of consumers purchase at retail grocery stores for themselves and their families. The U.S. law that mandated the labeling of beef and pork with country of origin labels was implemented in 2009 and is known as the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law.

Congress did this and the President concurred without any congressional debate, let alone public debate. Section 759 was cemented into the massive spending bill behind closed doors.

According to R-CALF USA, this was Congress’ and the President’s gift to a handful of multinational meatpackers that want to expand the list of countries from which they currently source their beef to sell to unsuspecting U.S. consumers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that the current list of beef sources includes 15 countries.

“Those meatpackers are having difficulty marketing beef in the U.S. market from countries such as Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada at prices that satisfy their shareholders. This is because our COOL law empowered consumers to differentiate United States-produced beef from the beef imported from less developed countries,” said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard.

Bullard said the multinational meatpackers first tried to repeal the COOL law in Congress in 2008 but was unsuccessful because the issue was then subject to the democratic process of open debate. In 2013 the meatpackers tried again to repeal COOL but this time in the U.S. judicial system. They filed a complaint in a U.S. district court and subsequently appealed their case to a U.S. court of appeals. The district and appellate courts soundly rejected the meatpackers’ claims that COOL violated their rights.

“But the meatpackers enlisted the help of the governments of Canada and Mexico to bring their grievance against COOL to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which was more than happy to help them deprive U.S. citizens of their right to know where their food was produced,” Bullard remarked.

Bullard said the WTO was poised to authorize Canada and Mexico to impose retaliatory tariffs in the amount of just over $1 billion if the United States did not capitulate to the meatpackers’ demand that COOL be repealed or take the next step.

“The next step in the process was for the President to direct his cabinet members to engage in diplomatic negotiations with Canada and Mexico to resolve their parochial concerns with our COOL law before any retaliatory tariffs could be implemented, but the President and his cabinet remained indifferent to the potential loss of the right of U.S. citizens to know the origins of their food,” Bullard explained.

“Now the Congress and the President have foreclosed any opportunity to preserve our COOL law through diplomatic channels when together they gifted the repeal of COOL to the multinational meatpackers in the 2016 spending bill,” Bullard concluded.

*Editor’s Commentary* – One of the major problems that exist in the corrupt Congress, and all of Washington, D.C. for that matter, is this act of baiting and bribing people to vote on a bill that may or may not be worthwhile. It’s extortion! This is WRONG on all levels. Is it really in the best interest of everyone to vote for an “omnibus” bill because it has funding for pet projects? In my opinion it is not. By promoting such an act, as we see below, the message we are sending the crooked bastards in Washington is that we approve of their corrupt tactics because we want someone else money for pet projects.

I’m not, necessarily, picking on the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. This utter nonsense, rife with corruption and insider trading for the benefit of political agendas and personal gain, is an act that should never be allowed. Most people are willfully blinded by this act and refuse to understand that the same evil pieces of camel dung that utilize this corrupt method of governing and stealing tax dollars, are the ones who refuse to change the law. Why is that?

I understand the RMEF’s enthusiasm for supporting these riders placed on an omnibus budget bill, a bill necessary because the dysfunctional, criminal Congress can’t do the job they are being paid way too much money to do. But at what expense(monetarily and political corruption)?

During the days of Mob rule, anybody who wanted to remain in business had to pay the Mob a percentage of their money and assets. Is there really any difference between then and what Congress is doing now? They pad the bill, i.e. entice people with their own tax dollars they are going to steal, for your vote.

These bastards can’t pass a functional operating budget (hell, they can’t even obey their own laws they pass). Why, then, should we hand them a big stamp of approval by encouraging corruption? Doesn’t anybody understand what’s going on? Doesn’t anybody care?

If you vote for or promote this continued action, then you really are no less corrupt then the blind mice of Congress.

(Note) – If readers will recall the rider attached to an omnibus bill that resulted in the delisting of wolves in Idaho and Montana, I did not support for many reasons. However, the major reason was because I was not willing to support a corrupt budget bill.

Press Release from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation:

MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Foundation calls on the full Congress to vote in favor of critical conservation and sportsmen issues just approved by Congressional leadership in the latest omnibus budget agreement.

The legislation, which is mandatory to avoid a government shutdown, reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) through 2018. It also permanently authorized an incentive toward the creation of conservation easements on privately owned land which will assist farmers and ranchers to permanently protect important wildlife habitat.

A bipartisan effort of western congressional leaders worked together to secure this legislation for wildlife, sportsmen and landowners; all critical elements to healthy elk country.

“We are grateful to Senators Bennet, Crapo, Daines, Gardner, Heller, Risch, Tester and Wyden as well as Representatives Simpson (Idaho) and Zinke who all had key roles in negotiating and overseeing the approval of these two extremely vital and essential conservation programs,” said David Allen, RMEF president and CEO. “We now urge RMEF members across the nation to contact their Congressional representatives to vote in favor of these issues as part of the current budget agreement vote set for Friday. And we call on the president to sign it into law.”

Congressional leaders appropriated $450 million for LWCF in FY2016, a $100 million increase from FY2015 levels. Since 1990, RMEF has utilized more than $85 million in LWCF funding across 62 projects in ten different states in partnership with federal agencies to protect, conserve and open access to some of the most vital elk country in the United States.

On the downside, Congress came up short on several fronts including permanently fixing the wildfire funding dilemma which continues to drain federal budgets, modest and much-needed forestry reform, and delisting gray wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes states—a common sense approach that would have ensured consistency in their management. Many view the lack of support for these two issues as negotiating chips given up in this compromise legislation.

“These issues have been and will remain priorities for RMEF and our members since they need to be addressed and are not going away anytime soon,” added Allen.